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OP A bit of trivia about today's wird
Thule (ancient area), name generally given by the ancients to the most northerly part of Europe known to them. Pytheas of Massalía (present-day Marseille), a Greek navigator of the 4th century BC, was the first to mention the island of Thule, stating that it was a six-day voyage north of Britain and that the midsummer sun never set there. It is not known, however, whether Pytheas ever reached Thule. In antiquity Thule was considered Mainland, the largest of the Shetland Islands, but modern scholars believe that Pytheas may have been referring to either Iceland or northern Norway. The Romans used the phrase Ultima Thule to denote the most distant unknown land.
Thule for 1
1 among the ancients, the northernmost region of the world, possibly taken to be Norway, Iceland, Jutland, etc.: also ultima Thule
2 Eskimo settlement on the NW coast of Greenland: pop. c. 1,000: site of U.S. air base
Notice that the name of the Air Force Base in N.W. Greenland is "tooley"
I learned the word in German, from Goethe's poem about the Icelandic king whose wife gave him a golden goblet. "die Augen täten ihm über, so oft er trank daraus" so I always pronounced it with a "t" and never before heard of its being pronounced with "th" as in "three".
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted ultima thule wwh 08/27/01 01:32 PM Re: ultima thule Faldage 08/27/01 01:36 PM Re: ultima thule Faldage 08/27/01 01:38 PM Re: ultima thule wwh 08/27/01 01:52 PM Re: my birthday suit Faldage 08/27/01 02:02 PM Not orange juice Fiberbabe 08/27/01 02:22 PM Re: Not orange juice Faldage 08/27/01 02:43 PM Re: Not orange juice wwh 08/27/01 03:05 PM toolies/cities Sparteye 08/27/01 07:23 PM Re: toolies/cities of troy 08/27/01 07:44 PM Re: up and down Jazzoctopus 08/27/01 09:16 PM up & down - feet on the air and head on the ground belligerentyouth 08/28/01 08:34 AM Uptown & downtown Bobyoungbalt 08/29/01 01:25 AM Re: up and down of troy 08/28/01 11:58 AM Re: toolies/cities Bobyoungbalt 08/29/01 01:16 AM
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